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| Name | Southampton (1820) | Explanation | |
| Type | Fourth rate | ||
| Launched | 7 November 1820 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 1476 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 60 | ||
| Fate | 1912 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1867 lent as t.s. | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| (January 1840) | Out of commission at Chatham | ||
| 15 May 1840 - 7 August 1841 | Commanded by Captain William Hillyar, flagship of Edward Durnford King, Cape of Good Hope | ||
| 12 August 1841 - 10 October 1841 | Commanded by Acting Captain Stephen Grenville Fremantle, flagship of Vice-Admiral Edward Durnford King, Cape of Good Hope | ||
| 8 November 1841 - 3 December 1842 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Ogle, flagship of Vice-Admiral Edward Durnford King, Cape of Good Hope | ||
| 3 August 1848 - 26 January 1852 | Commanded by Captain Nicholas Cory, flagship of Rear-Admiral Barrington Reynolds, Cape of Good Hope | ||
| 2 December 1856 | Commanded (from commissioning at Chatham) by Captain Edward Philips Charlewood, Coast Guard, Harwich | ||
| 1 October 1860 - 15 July 1861 | Commanded by Captain Charles Wise, guardship of ordinary | ||
| 25 July 1879 - 1890 | Commanded by Captain and superintendent George Doherty Broad, industrial school ship, Hull | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Fr 5 February 1841 | Portsmouth.— An augmentation of the Royal Marine Corps has been ordered, report says, to the extent of 3,000 men, which is strongly indicative of a further increase to the navy in the spring. Several splendid ships at the different ports are silently, but expeditiously, being completed for commission. The Vindictive, and Warspite, 50-gun ships, are ordered for commission at this port, as soon as ready. The former is said to be intended for the Lisbon command, with a Commodore's pendant. Rear-Admiral Sir Edward King, K.C.B., reached Rio de Janeiro in the Southampton frigate, from Plymouth on the 14th of November, and was to proceed to the Pacific in about ten days, to succeed Rear-Admiral Ross, C.B., who will return to England in the President frigate, and may be expected home about April next. The Inconstant, 36, Captain Pring, has received orders to proceed to the Mediterranean, it is reported to supply the place of the Pique, 36, ordered home to be docked, &c. She was to leave Plymouth on Tuesday for Malta, taking out between 300 and 400 volunteer seamen for disposal in the fleet. The Endymion frigate, Captain the Hon. F.W. Grey, is under orders for the East Indies, to join Rear-Admiral Elliott's squadron, for whom she will take despatches and supernumeraries for the squadron. The corvette Tweed, 20, Commander Douglas, has bent sails, and is waiting Admiralty orders. It is said she will proceed to the South American station. The corvette Iris, 26, Captain Nurse, has left Spithead for service on the coast of Africa. She took despatches for the senior officer there. It is reported that the Andromache, 26, Captain Baynes, is to go to the East Indies from the Cape of Good Hope. The steamer Lizard, Lieutenant Estcourt, will leave this harbour to-morrow, for the Mediterranean, taking despatches for Sir Robert Stopford. The brig Pelican, 16, Commander Napier, is waiting Admiralty orders at Spithead; she is in want of several petty officers to complete her crew. The Monarch, 84, Captain Chambers, will be at Spithead, according to a private letter, on the 8th instant, from Sheerness.— Brighton Gazette. | ||
| Fr 23 April 1841 | Portsmouth.— There is a report that the Warspite, 50, is to be forthwith commissioned here, for the broad pendant of Commodore Sir Charles Napier, who is to have the command in the Pacific. The line-of-battle ships, Edinburgh, 72, Captain Henderson, and Bellerophon, 78, Captain C.J. Austen, are ordered home from the Mediterranean to be paid off, and may shortly be expected to arrive. The Hastings, 72, Captain Lawrence, will leave Malta for England, for the same purpose, in May next. The transport Belle Alliance, in command of Lieutenant Densten, has put into Plymouth from Deptford, with naval and ordnance stores for the squadron in the China seas. The Fair Rosamond schooner has been commissioned at this port by Lieutenant Bulman, for service on the coast of Africa. The Bonetta brigantine, Lieutenant Austen, fitting out at Chatham, is to go to the same station, and to be at Spithead by the 23th inst. The Stag, 46, Commodore Thomas Sullivan, recently from the Brazils, will haul down the pendant on Friday at Plymouth, and be hauled into dock to be surveyed as to her fitness for re-commissioning. The surveying vessel Thunder, Commander G. Barnett, according to private letters, will be in England in July next, to be paid on, from the Bahamas. The brig Acorn, 16, Commander Adams, has reached Plymouth from the Cape station, and is ordered to be refitted there without delay. She left Simon's-bay on the 28th of January, at which date Rear-Admiral Elliot had not arrived from China on his homeward voyage. Rear-Admiral Sir Edward King, K.C.B., was daily expected to arrive at the Cape from the Rio Plata in the Southampton frigate. The Acorn brought no news. The steam frigate Salamander, Commander Henry, returned to Sheerness on Monday, being ordered for some special service forthwith. The Asia, 84, recently from the Mediterranean, is to be forthwith reported upon, for recommissioning at Sheerness. Several large frigates and steamships are in active progress of completion for commission, should any emergency arise. — Brighton Gazette. | ||
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